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September 2007

“Faculty”
  • Martin Harmer, the Alcoa Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, has been elected to the World Academy of Ceramics as an academician -- one of 14 accepted into the academy this year. Martin is expected to receive the diploma during the opening ceremony of the World Academy of Ceramics Forum to be held in Chianciano, Italy, in July of 2008. This international award follows closely on the heels of Harmer’s acceptance of the 2008 Robert B. Sosman Award from the American Ceramics Society.
  • Thomas L. Koch, the Daniel E. '39 and Patricia Smith Chair and director of the Center of Optical Technologies, has been named to the Eric E. Sumner Award given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award, sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent, is presented annually to an individual or small team that has made outstanding contributions to communications technology. Koch is world-renowned and respected as a pioneering researcher and visionary in the field, with a 25-year record of significant achievements in optical communications technology, profoundly impacting the field’s development. Koch’s contributions to communications have been exceptionally broad, in topics such as laser-chirp modeling and mitigation, laser dynamics, and distributed feedback.
“Programs”
  • RCEAS, in partnership with University Relations, has released the second issue of Resolve, a magazine dedicated to engineering research and educational innovation at Lehigh. Since the publication of its inaugural issue in the fall of 2006, overwhelming positive feedback from professional colleagues, faculty, students, alumni has prompted an expansion of the magazine to a biannual publication. As of mid-September, Resolve’s online companion at www.lehigh.edu/resolve will be updated to reflect the content of the new issue. If you haven't received a copy of Resolve and would like one, please send your request to engineering@lehigh.edu.
  • The Lehigh student chapter of SPIE – the International Society for Optical Engineering -- is hosting an invited speaker on September 20 at 4pm in 184 Rauch Business Center. The speaker is Dr. Greg Olsen, who will recount his experience of becoming the third private citizen to orbit the earth on the International Space Station (ISS). He performed more than 150 orbits of the earth and logged almost 4 million miles of weightless travel during his 10 days in space. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Olsen has been awarded 12 patents, written more than 100 technical papers, co-authored several book chapters and given numerous invited lectures to both technical and trade journal audiences. For more information, visit the Lehigh SPIE Web site at http://www.lehigh.edu/~inspie/home.html.